Ralph Munroe Family collection - 1916-1971

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HMA0045

Nom et localisation du dépôt

HistoryMiami Museum

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Titre

Ralph Munroe Family collection - 1916-1971

Date(s)

  • 1916-1971 (Création/Production)

Importance matérielle

10.00 Cubic feet

Nom du producteur

Munroe, Ralph Middleton, 1851-1933

Notice biographique

After spending several winters in in the Miami area, Ralph Munroe took up permanent residence in the settlement that would become Coconut Grove in 1884. A renowed designer of sailboats, an nventor and photographer, he also made a living salvaging shipwrecks on the Florida reefs for the Coastal Wrecking Company.

Munroe was one of the founders of Coconut Grove and helped organize the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. Installed as club's first commodore, he was thereafter affectionately known as "The Commodore". A widower, he married Jessie Wirth in 1895, and with their children, Wirth and Patty, lived at The Barnacle which he had built in 1891. The family occupied the house until 1968 when it was sold at a nominal price to the Sate of Florida for use as a historic site and museum.

Nom du producteur

Munroe, Wirth, 1902-1968

Notice biographique

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Portée et contenu

Correspondence, school reports, Miami High School yearbooks, the Adirondack-Florida School Christmas letters, club membership directories, photographs, newspaper clippings, Eleventh Judical Circuit grand jury report and other ephemera mostly pertaining to the interests and pursuits of Ralph Munroe and his son, Wirth. Of interest are two letters from an Associate at the American Museum of Natural History asking Ralph to provide data on the capture of a Whale Shark in off the Florida Keys.

Tea Chest correspondence, invoices and guest book. The Tea Chest was a Coconut Grove tea room and gift shop. Material reflects a wide variety of items for the shop, many handcrafted, and includes letters from the United Society of Shakers, Cowan Pottery, and enterprises run by women across the country, as well as invoices from Miami area businesses.

Ralph M. Munroe photographs, 1883-1915: Views reflect Munroe's nautical and family interests.

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Conditions d’accès

The collection is open for research.

Accès physique

Glass negative originals not available due to fragility.
As a preservation measure, researchers must view the reference set of printed reproductions.

Accès technique

Conditions de reproduction

Permission from HistoryMiami staff is required prior to reproduction of drawings and photographs in a publication. Please contact archives staff for more information.

Langue des documents

  • anglais

Écriture des documents

    Notes de langue et graphie

    Instruments de recherche

    Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation

    Historique de la conservation

    Source immédiate d'acquisition

    Gift of Patty Munroe Catlow, 1985

    Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

    Accroissements

    Photographic prints accession number: 2012-228

    Sources complémentaires

    Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

    Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

    Sources complémentaires

    HistoryMiami Museum's objects collections contain one of Munroe's cameras, as well as other Munroe family memorabilia.
    Please reach out to objects@historymiami.org for inquiries.

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    Accession:

    1985-040

    2012-227

    Note générale

    For further biographical information and reproductions of about 200 of the images, see The Forgotten Frontier, by Arva Moore Parks (Miami: Banyan Books, 1977).

    See also Munroe's autobiography, The Commodore's Story (Miami: Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1985), originally published 1930.

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    © Copyright 2019 HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center. All rights reserved.

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